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A single-player strategy-survival city builder about expanding a rat colony, managing its economy, and defending it, with a substantial campaign and a somewhat clunky execution.

Airborne Empire
An open-world RPG city builder where you build and manage a flying sky city, explore a vast landscape, and engage in a cute, lighthearted adventure.
2026-04-17
- Action
- Adventure

Survival

Strategy

Fantasy

Bird view / Isometric

Tactical

Indie

Simulator

Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Role-playing (RPG)

Open world

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EcoGnomix

A casual roguelite/city-builder hybrid about building a gnome city above while looting caves below on short runs, with reviewers calling it a light, quick time-filler.

2024-09-30

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Fighting
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Ratropolis

A fast-paced real-time strategy roguelite combining deck-building, tower defense, and city-building, where you defend and expand a rat city using a card deck; reviewers played a median of about 42 hours.

2020-12-22

Warfare
Survival
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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Microtopia

A single-player strategy sim about steering a robot ant colony with pheromone trails and supply chains, praised for its unusual mechanics but critiqued for limited automation and frustrating expansion.

2025-02-18

Science fiction
Strategy
Simulator
Sandbox

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Havendock

A cozy single-player ocean colony sim where you build a castaway haven, manage resources, and advance to high-tech society—reviewers found it addictive but prone to losing momentum.

2025-04-22

Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Catizens

A cute, casual colony sim about raising and managing a settlement of quirky cats, with light exploration and building.

2024-11-14

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Feastopia

A culinary rogue-lite city-builder where you pact with a deity, build a food metropolis across randomized runs, and face increasing difficulty over a lengthy ~40-hour campaign.

2026-01-29

Strategy
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Flotsam

A single-player floating city-builder about scavenging a garbage sea and rescuing survivors, with a moderately sized ~20-hour playthrough that reviewers found engaging but with some rough edges.

2025-12-04

Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Pile Up!

A compact strategic city-builder about careful placement and risk management, with a relaxed tone but some technical bugs.

2025-07-23

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Fabledom

A cozy fairytale city builder focused on relaxed settlement growth, neighborly interactions, and light magical defense, with a simple, small-scope systems approach.

2024-05-13

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Going Medieval

A medieval colony sim about building and managing a castle settlement in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, with a moddable sandbox and dozens of hours of play.

2026-03-17

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Open world
Sandbox

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The King is Watching

A single-player dark-fantasy roguelite kingdom builder where your royal gaze decides between resource production and army training across randomized runs.

2025-07-21

Action
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Historical